I've got really prolific since I moved to Paris where I am living permanently, for the rest of my life, until I… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
Well, it seems to me that there are books that tell stories, and then there are books that tell truths... The first… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
I wanted to avoid what some modern tellers have done, quite legitimately, to make fairy tales more like novels and short stories,… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was a world… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“Why are heroines in romantic novels—despite their cleanliness and enviable lifestyles—so unlikeable? It’s like they’ve been hit with a vanilla ninny stick,… — Penny Reid Copy Share Image
I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I hate those endless descriptions of a heroine's physical attributes . . . it really bothers me how in books it seems… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unending… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In pulp fiction it is a rigid convention that the hero's shoulders and the heroine's balcon constantly threaten to burst their bonds,… — S. J. Perelman Copy Share Image
When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talk-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
In the early years of the Roaring Twenties, American women not only won the right to vote but they also earned headlines… — Donna de Varona Copy Share Image
There must be hundreds of unsung heroes and heroines who first tasted strange things growing - and think of the man who… — Gladys Taber Copy Share Image
Some people say heroines just have to look good and provide the glamour. Some say, from dance-n-song routines, heroines have come a… — Urmila Matondkar Copy Share Image
A glad zest and hopefulness might be inspired even in the most jaded and ennui-cursed, were there in our homes such simple,… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
Make them do as you want them to," she said. "I can’t," mourned Anne. "Averil is such an unmanageable heroine. She will… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
The romance genre is the only genre where readers are guaranteed novels that place the heroine at the heart of the story.… — Jayne Ann Krentz Copy Share Image
“Villains made no special guest appearances in our Once Upon A Time story games. They scared Laura and bored me, so instead… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
